Hello, everyone, welcome to “Inconvenient Truths by Jennifer Zeng”.

Recently a lot of major events have happened; and these events will greatly affect the relationships among the US, Taiwan, Hong Kong, and China, or the Chinese Communist Party, the CCP. These events include the first round of mass arrests in Hong Kong after the so-called National Security Law went into effect; The US Health and Human Services Secretary’s visit to Taiwan, the highest-level visit by an American Cabinet official for 40 years, the removal of “China” from the profile logos of the US embassy and consulate in China, Chinese jets crossing the Taiwan Strait median line, and that Taiwan and China were only 30 seconds away from a war, etc. 

What is the significance and indications of these events? Let’s discuss them one by one.

Why Can’t the CCP Get Hong Kong Right?

First of all, let’s check the mass arrests in Hong Kong on Monday (August 10). Jimmy Lai, the founder of Apple Daily, was arrested along with his two sons, and 7 other pro-democracy activists. 

By the way, Apply Daily is one of the only two Chinese language newspapers in Hong Kong that remain independent of the CCP. Another one is the Epoch Times. Almost all other papers have become pro-CCP. 

On August 10, Over 200 police officers raided and searched Apply Daily’s office without a court-issued search warrant. According to the new National Security Law, a search warrant is no longer needed if this is a “national security” related case. Jimmy Lai and Apple Daily are regarded as a threat to “national security”, or rather, the CCP, for being critical of the CCP, and supporting Hong Kong people’s fight for freedom. 

These arrests happened just 3 days after the US imposed sanctions on 11 individuals, including Hong Kong’s Chief Executive Carrie Lam, for undermining Hong Kong’s autonomy. 

At that time, the top CCP leaders and retired elders were also having their mysterious annual Beidaihe Meeting to decide the direction for the party to go.

So these arrests can be viewed as retaliation for America’s sanctions, as well as a decision reached at the Beidaihe Meeting to test how the world would react to the CCP’s further clampdown on Hong Kong.

The irony of this is, while the US sanctioned CCP officials to defend the people of Hong Kong, the CCP arrested its own people to “punish” America. What kind of logic is this?

What surprised, and moved the world was the reactions of ordinary Hong Kongers. Usually, when the chairman of a company gets arrested and is in great trouble, that company’s share price will definitely fall. However, after Jimmy Lai’s arrest, after falling for a short while, the share price of his company jumped from 0.08 HKD to 1.61 HKD in less than 2 days, which was 20 times higher! 

Upon investigation, it was found that people who bought the shares were mainly ordinary Hong Kongers, not big companies. 

Also, people lined up to buy Apply Daily. Usually, this paper’s daily sales volume is 70K copies per day. But on the day when Jimmy Lai was arrested, 550K copies were sold! The company had to print many more extra copies to meet the demand. People said even if Apple Daily printed just blank papers on that day, they would also buy it.

 Some people bought many copies and gave them for free to others to show support.  People also lined up outside Jimmy Lai’s son’s restaurant, to express their support.

After seeing these kinds of reactions, many Chinese people were moved to tears. They said, from ancient times to the present, people do business, buy stocks to make money; and the stock market is a place to make a profit, nothing else.

However, today’s people of Hong Kong showed their courage and creativity one more time by turning a money-making business into their votes for justice and freedom.

That’s where the heartless CCP can never get Hong Kong right. They just don’t understand that there are people in the world who don’t live for money, and who cannot be conquered by fear. They don’t understand how people with a soul and a heart will look at the world and react to the suppression.

 Although the CCP has, to a great extent, turned almost 1.4 billion Chinese people into its slaves, and some Western politicians and elites into their puppets, there are far more people in the world who treasure freedom more than anything else, and who wouldn’t sell their souls for money.

And because of this reason, I don’t see how the struggle and suffering of the people of Hong Kong can end if the CCP still exists.

However, the sacrifice, courage, and loftiness of Hong Kongers have opened the eyes of many people and won people’s respect and admiration. People of the world have realized that the struggle between the people of Hong Kong and the CCP is also everybody’s struggle, as it is a struggle between freedom and tyranny, as US Secretary of the State Mike Pompeo has put it. The world definitely needs to stand with Hong Kong in this battle, as Hong Kong’s fight is everybody’s fight.

“China” Removed from U.S. Embassy and  Consulate’s Profile Images

On the following day of the mass arrests in Hong Kong, another event happened “quietly”, but that soon sparked hot discussion amongst Chinese communities worldwide. 

Early morning on August 11, some Chinese netizens found that the profile images of the Weibo, WeChat, and Twitter account of the US Embassy and consulates in China had been updated, with the word “China” removed. What was “Beijing ‧ China” became “Beijing” only, with “China” disappearing. 

Immediately people started to debate what the indication of this change meant, especially at a time when the tensions between the US and the CCP were on the rise; while the relations between Taiwan and the US were quickly warming. 

Some people say this was one more step on the path of “de-China-ization”, and the US was getting itself ready to enhance its relationships with Taiwan, or even to resume formal diplomatic relations. If that happens, the US can use the same profile image, and replace “Beijing” with “Taipei”. 

People also noticed that US Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar was not only the highest level US official who visited Taiwan since 1979, but the plane that took him to Taiwan was a U.S. Air Force aircraft, which belongs to the U. S. government, and is used as a special mission aircraft for US commanders and government officials. In the past, when US officials visited Taiwan, they took commercial flights. 

So the indication is very clear. Some commentators say that it is possible for the US to announce that the CCP is an illegal organization at some stage, or to recognize Taiwan as a country too. 

If the CCP can have formal diplomatic relationships with both South and North Korea at the same time, why is it so bullying as to not allow others to have formal diplomatic relationships with both Taiwan and the CCP? 

30 Seconds Away from  War

While Taiwan and the US are getting closer to each other, the CCP is sending out mixed, and conflicting messages.

On the one hand,  the CCP’s army frequently shows its muscles in the Taiwan Strait area. For example, on August 10, the CCP’s air force flew fighter jets across the unofficial line that divides the Taiwan Strait into separate Chinese and Taiwanese zones, as a response to Alex Azar’s visit. After crossing the median line, the CCP’s fighter jets were only 5 minutes or 100 km away from the main island of  Taiwan Island.

According to Chinese commentator Shi Shan, at that stage, all anti-aircraft missiles on the ground in Taiwan were on full alert, and ready to fire at any minute. 

If the CCP’s fighter jets had not flown back as quickly as 10-20 seconds after they flew across the median line, Taiwan would have really launched its missiles. In other words, if the CCP’s fighter jets had flown for 30 seconds longer, a war could have already broken out between Taiwan and the CCP.

On  August 13, according to the CCP’s mouthpiece Global Times,  the CCP’s army conducted ‘unprecedented’ massive military drills in the Taiwan Strait to openly “warn” “Taiwan secessionists”.

Hu Xijin, the chief editor of Global Times said in a tweet that the exercises show “The PLA is capable of launching a full-scale attack and capturing the island within hours, leaving US military no time to react. It’s a clear warning to Taiwan independence.”

“Don’t  Fire the First Shot”

However, according to South China Morning Post, which is owned by Alibaba,  the CCP’s military were told not to fire the first shot in the stand-off with US forces. In the meantime, the CCP’s top diplomat Wang Yi, Yang Jiechi, and Le Yucheng all started to say that the CCP is ready to have “rational talks” with the US and that there are many areas that the US and China can work together, etc.

There are also rumors that at its mysterious annual “Beidaihe meeting”, the CCP  made a new “3 soft & 3 tough” policy: soft on the US, soft on the West & soft on actions; and tough on domestic issues, propaganda & HK.

So, obviously, these are different messages from the military’s actions. So which messages represent the CCP’s true intention?

Don’t Underestimate Xi Jinping’s Desire to “Liberate Taiwan”

According to Popular Chinese commentator and YouTuber Wen Zhao, people should never underestimate Xi Jinping’s desire to “liberate Taiwan”. Next year is the CCP’s 100th year anniversary of its establishment, if Xi could “unify” Taiwan, that would be his most desired political legacy. 

This year there have been quite a lot of military exercises happening in southern provinces of China, and many people laughed at the incompetence of the CCP’s army. They didn’t take these exercises seriously. 

However, Wen Zhao said that the real purpose of these exercises could be to move the armies around, to have them gathered at designated places so that when they are needed, they can be put into combat right away. 

Otherwise, if the CCP armies didn’t do the exercises, in the future, if they are really going to attack Taiwan, as soon as they start to move, their whereabouts will be captured by US satellites, and it will be difficult for the CCP army to hide its intention.

Will the CCP attack Taiwan or not? Perhaps nobody knows. But we do know that the CCP does have motivations to attack Taiwan: It would be a big gift for the CCP’s 100th year anniversary if the CCP can “unify” Taiwan; it would divert people’s attention away from the CCP’s crises; it would bring the country to an emergency state so that the CCP can do what they cannot do in a peaceful time, such as to freeze people’s bank accounts, to seize people’s assets, etc.

In this sense, I think it is better for the world, especially for Taiwan and the US to get prepared.

Romance of 4 Kingdoms

There is a famous Chinese idiom “Ci Xiao Bi Zhang (此消彼长)”, which means when some forces are rising, other forces are falling. There is also a very famous classical Chinese novel called Romance of Three Kingdoms.  The novel tells the stories about how 3 forces fought among themselves to establish their own kingdoms about 1700 years ago. Those fascinating and intriguing stories have excited many Chinese readers for hundreds of years.

Well, the recent events I just discussed today strongly remind me of the novel Romance of Three Kingdoms. That’s why I gave this episode the title “The CCP, Hong Kong, Taiwan, and the US: Romance of 4 Kingdoms”.

Which forces will rise, and which forces will fall after the current somewhat“chaotic” battles and fights end? I think the process and answer are more fascinating and intriguing than the stories in Romance of Three Kingdoms. We are not only witnessing big, big changes unfolding right in front of our eyes, but are also given the opportunities to participate, and play a part in these historical events and changes.

That’s all for today. Thanks for watching. Truth, no matter how inconvenient it is, does save lives. Please subscribe to my channel, and check out my other videos.

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8/14/2020

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Hello, everyone, welcome to “Inconvenient Truths”.

We all know that US President Trump just signed two executive orders to block all U.S. transactions with TikTok’s Chinese parent company ByteDance, as well as WeChat’s owner Tencent. As both TikTok and WeChat have large numbers of users, many people will be affected, and people are talking a lot about this. Today I’d like to present some of my own perspectives on this: Why I called this a “modern-day Trojan War” waged by the CCP against the US and the free world as early as two years ago, some hard evidence I found regarding the relationships between TikTok and the CCP, some concrete examples of to what extent TikTok and Wechat have been weaponized by the CCP, as well as the risk of Microsoft’s potential acquisition of TikTok. So stay tuned. 

What is a “Modern-Day Trojan War”? What is at Stake?

First of all, what is a “modern-day Trojan War”? And What is at stake?

This “modern-day Trojan War” I started to talk about two years ago is not about fighting for the “fairest” goddess in the world, but about a battle for the future of humankind between the United States, the free world and a “hidden” force, whose ultimate goal is to destroy humanity. If the “hidden” force wins, humankind will be doomed.

When I said “hidden” force two years ago, I of course meant the Chinese Communist Party, the CCP. 

I said, with the future of humankind as the “trophy” for this battle, the CCP has adopted a Trojan War type of ruse to achieve its goal, while the United States and the world may not be aware of it, even until the “hidden” force is very, very close to a complete success. 

With the latest development with the case of TikTok and Wechat, I think this idea is even clearer today: With the “hidden force” being the CCP,  what’s inside the wooden horse of the “modern-day Trojan War” are the CCP’s corrupt ideology, corrupt values and corrupt way of behavior, which aim to control, corrupt and then destroy humankind. 

And the wooden horse the CCP uses to hide its “troops”  actually consists of many different parts, including TikTok and WeChat. 

Why do I say so? 

TikTok and WeChat Are the CCP’s “Wooden Horse”

With CCP’s full support, WeChat has long since become the dominating app in China. Everyone with a smartphone relies on it virtually for everything: to obtain news and information regarding what’s going on in the world, to contact friends and family,  to do shopping, business, to make payments, to entertain oneself, etc. 

Many workplaces use WeChat as a platform to send notices. School teachers use it to give assignments to students and to send notifications to parents. Students are required to submit their homework via WeChat, etc. 

To sum it up, if you don’t use WeChat, you can hardly survive in CCP’s China.

And how about dozens of millions of overseas Chinese people? 

My own estimation is, over 80% of them are using WeChat, as everyone has family and friends in China, so they have to install it, as this is almost the only way to maintain contacts with people in China. 

It has also become a must-have tool if you want to do business with Chinese people or Chinese companies, regardless of whether you are inside or outside of China. Almost all small businesses list their WeChat numbers as the main contact info for their customers.

With WeChat having become an “essential” part of Chinese people’s life, what kind of content is provided on this platform?

Let me give you some concrete examples.

On March 3 this year, I talked to someone in China over the phone.

By the way, I am one of the very few overseas Chinese people who have never used WeChat. Why didn’t I use it? Because I learned the terrible features of WeChat as early as 7 years ago, from a high school classmate who is also an IT engineer.

He told me that as soon as you installed WeChat on your phone, the CCP would have access to virtually everything on your phone, including information of all your contacts. 

This classmate learned computer science in America, worked in Silicon Valley for several years, and then went back to China to set up his own company. 

As he had mastered the most advanced technology, his company was soon hired by the CCP to especially work against a software called Freegate developed by some overseas Chinese, or to put it more specifically, some overseas Falun Gong practitioners, to help Internet users in China or other countries to visit websites that are blocked by their governments. 

This classmate told me that the CCP had set no limit as to how much money they could spend on blocking Freegate, as long as they could disable it, they could spend as much as they liked.  Because this classmate worked in this area, he knew many inside stories regarding CCP’s internet control. 

So because of the information I learned from him, I never used WeChat.

Ok, this is a little bit off the track. Now let’s go back to what happened in March this year when I talked to someone in China over the phone. 

Basically, she very eagerly reported to me four pieces of news about the US she saw on WeChat that day:

1. The first piece was, over 10 thousand people in the US have died of the flu this year. That was actually the third time she reported the same “news” to me.

2. The second news she told me was that President Trump refused to shake hands with a congressman and had slapped that congressman on the face. When I tried to say that if this really happened, that would have been the biggest news of the day, and I could not have missed it. However, I didn’t see any news about this in America, so it must be fake news. But no matter how I tried to explain, she didn’t believe me whatsoever, saying that she had seen the video of Trump slapping that congressman with her own eyes. How could she not believe it?

3. The third news she told me was that there was a hurricane in the US somewhere;

4. The fourth news she shared with me was that panic-buying was happening in San Francisco, especially among Chinese communities, and that she strongly suggested that I hoard enough food too, so that I wouldn’t starve to death.

On April 11, I talked to her again, and she told me that she learned from WeChat the following 3 pieces of news: 

1. President Trump has apologized to China and Chinese people for calling COVID19 “Chinese virus”

2. The US is suffering very badly from coronavirus and cannot stand on its feet now, and is begging China for help.

3. China will become the No. 1 country in the world after the pandemic.

From the above actual examples, we can see that the information or misinformation about the US on the WeChat is carefully designed and arranged for the Chinese people. Some pieces are sheer lies, such as Trump has slapped a congressman on his face, but are made so real that people have no other choices but to believe in it. 

Some of the WeChat contents are truths, or partly true, such as the news about the hurricane, the flu, the panic buying in the Chinese community, etc. But the purpose of reporting the truth, such as over 10 thousand people have died of flu in the US, is to try to say to Chinese people, “Don’t blame us for the pandemic, the situation in the US is so much worse.” In this way, Chinese people will still feel good about the CCP’s ruling. 

Some of the WeChat information is, of course, sheer propaganda, to brainwash Chinese people, such as China will become the No. 1 country after the pandemic.

So imagine, if enough overseas Chinese people also mainly rely on WeChat to get their information, the CCP has successfully turned the WeChat, and TikTok too, in this matter, into their “wooden horse” for their modern-day “Trojan War” against the free world.

Orginaze, Moblize, Molintor and Control 

After enough people are using TikTok and WeChat, or any other CCP controlled apps, these apps can easily be used to organize, mobilize, monitor, and control people. 

Let me give you another example. 

Back in 2017, I shared on social media a message circulated on WeChat ahead of President Trump and CCP leader  Xi Jinping’s upcoming meeting in Florida in April that year. That message shows that Chinese people were offered $60 per day to go to Florida to “welcome” Xi Jinping. It also said that transportation, food, and housing would also be taken care of, which means, the CCP would pay all the expenses for people from other places to go there to show support for Xi Jinping. 

After I shared this WeChat message on Facebook, someone left a comment under my post, saying that he was an overseas Chinese, he had studied in Japan and then worked in France. Under the Chinese consulate’s “ruling”, he and others had welcomed the Chinese president “numerous” times without being paid anything. 

Then he corrected himself by saying that the “ruling” in his previous comment should be “notifying”.

I almost laughed at this “coincidence”, as in the Chinese language, the pronunciation of “rule” and “notify” is almost exactly the same.  “Rule” in Chinese is “Tongzhi(統治）”，“notify” in Chinese is “Tongzhi(通知）”. 

So the guy who left a comment under my post must have wanted to type in “notify” in Chinese, but mistakenly chose the word “rule” instead.

Then I thought to myself: Wait a minute. Isn’t “notifying” exactly a form of “ruling”? 

For example, although I am Chinese in terms of ethnicity, I am an Australian citizen in a legal sense, as I hold an Australian passport. As an Australian citizen living in the US, I never ever received any “notification” from the Australian consulates or Australian government about anything. 

However, the CCP’s consulates, by using the WeChat app, can easily send their “notifications”, or “rules”, in this matter, to Chinese people living in overseas countries, and mobilize them to do things that the CCP wants them to do.

Isn’t this another proof that WeChat has indeed become a weapon for the CCP’s “Trojan War”? 

Another similar story happened not long ago. Maybe you’ve already heard about it.

On June 20 this year, before President Trump was going to have his first campaign rally in months in Tulsa, Oklahoma, almost 1 million requested tickets for the rally, but only about 6,200 showed up to an arena with space for 19,000. It turned out TikTok was used to organize enough people to act together to achieve the result that some people wanted to achieve. 

Mining Data

Apart from spreading information or misinformation, mobilizing, controlling, and monitoring people, TikTok and WeChat can also be used to mine mega data from users. In the age of Big Data and artificial intelligence (AI),  everyone understands the importance of data. Some call it the most important strategic resource a country can have.

I remember in late 2018 when two Chinese hackers associated with the Ministry of State Security in China were charged by the United States with an extensive global computer-intrusion campaign carried out over more than a decade, people were shocked to learn how vast the intrusion campaign was, and how much information they had stolen. 

Apart from other military & technology-related information, the hackers also stole personal information of more than 100K U.S. Navy personnel, including their names, Social Security numbers, dates of birth, salary information, personal phone numbers, and email addresses. It shows that personal information is also very important to the CCP, that’s why their hackers were stealing it.

If now, with so many people using TikTok and WeChat, CCP can “legally”,  conveniently and easily gather people’s information from these apps, how wonderful that would be for the CCP?

Will Microsoft’s Acquisition Make TikTok Safe?

Another important question to ask is: Will Microsoft’s acquisition make TikTok safe?

My answer is, probably not. 

Let’s first of all, check two media reports I found, which tell us that CCP’s DNA might have been planted into TikTok’s very being, and it is very hard to change or remove it.

The first media report is about an event held at the headquarters of TikTok’s parent company ByteDance in Beijing last year. The event was held jointly by the CCP branch of ByteDance and the Overseas Chinese Federation in China. The theme of the event is “Remain true to our original aspiration and keep our mission firmly in mind.”

“Remain true to our original aspiration and keep our mission firmly in mind” is a famous CCP slogan quoted from Xi Jinping’s speech at the CCP’s 19th National Congress in 2017.

And what is CCP’s “original aspiration” and “mission”? The Manifesto of the Communist Party has made it very clear: to overthrow all old systems, to smash all existing human civilizations, to “liberate” all mankind, and to realize Communism in the entire world.

So, TikTok’s parent company ByteDance vowed  to”remain true” to CCP’s “original aspiration” and keep its mission “firmly in mind”.

And through what kind of methods?

The report also makes this very clear: “through massive information collection, in-depth data mining and user behavior analysis.”

From this report, we also learned that ByteDance’s deputy editor-in-chief Feng Kaixu is also the deputy secretary of the CCP’s committee at Bytedance. We learned from another report that ByteDance’s editor-in-chief Zhang Fuping is also CCP’s party secretary, and there are 138 CCP branch committee members at ByteDance’s headquarters in Beijing. 

Please note that 138 are only party branch committee members, not ordinary CCP members. 138 party branch committee members mean that they could have 10 times more ordinary CCP members.

Another report I found is about ByteDance signing a strategic cooperation agreement with CCP’s police force. From this report we learned that ByteDance is doing everything it can to help the CCP police. Apart from “big data analysis, accurate push and creative planning”, ByteDance also provides professional training to the CCP police, as well as the most powerful and sophisticated tools and platforms to the CCP police, so that they can have an all-out presence and influence at all levels of the cyberspace.

If, at the designing, or development stage,  CCP’s “Remain true to our original aspiration and keep our mission firmly in mind” was written into the source code of TikTok, how can that be changed by simply changing the ownership of TikTok?

Furthermore, if we check Microsoft’s track record, we know that Microsoft collaborates with the CCP on AI, and helped China build its Great Firewall; Bill Gate’s nuclear firm worked with CCP military; Microsoft worked with the CCP to develop a special type of Skype, called TOM-Skype for Chinese users. Microsoft intentionally redirected Chinese users so that they would download a different program, one which looks almost the same as Skype but opens up a user’s communications to surveillance by the CCP.

With all the above-mentioned factors and track records, I seriously doubt whether letting Microsoft take over TikTok will make it safer. 

Perhaps we should learn from India and just ban all unsafe CCP apps outright.

Ok, that’s all for today. Thanks for watching. Please make sure you subscribe to my channel, and check out my other videos.

Truth saves lives. Stay safe and healthy. See you next time!

8/11/2020

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(Jennifer’s note: Below is the English translation of the excerpt of an article widely circulated on Chinese websites. The author is said to be Li Guangman (李光满), an active author and commentator of current affairs. )

(曾錚注：以下爲流傳於大陸網絡的一篇文章的節選及其英文翻譯。）

How Should China respond to a comprehensive war waged by the United States?

中国如何应对美国发动的综合战争？

1、Comprehensively liquidate U.S. enterprises in China, especially financial and service enterprises, cancel their qualifications to operate in China, and no longer open China’s financial, agricultural and service industries to the U.S. These are the enterprises with the largest U.S. trade surpluses with China, and hit the U.S. where it hurts.

一是全面清理美国在华企业特别是金融及服务类企业，取消这些企业在华经营资格，不再对美国开放中国金融、农业及服务类产业，这是美国对华贸易获得顺差最多的企业，要打就把美国打疼；

2. Vigorously develop nuclear weapons to truly deter the United States from making reckless moves against China with a powerful nuclear deterrent to deter the United States from its madness.

二是是大力发展核武器，真正以强大的核威慑镇慑美国的疯狂，使美国不敢对中国轻举妄动；

3. Raise defense spending to more than 4 percent of GDP, vigorously develop advanced weapons, and genuinely compete with the United States and the United States-led group of imperialist countries with strong defense capabilities.

三是全面提高国防开支，将国防开支提高到占GDP4%以上，大力发展先进武器，真正以强大的国防实力与美国和以美国为首的帝国主义国家集团相抗衡；

4. Put forward a clear-cut proposal to oppose US hegemony, unite all the forces that can be united, build a global anti-imperialist and anti-hegemonic national coalition, and confront the imperialist hegemonic alliance with a just alliance.

四是旗帜鲜明地提出反对美国霸权主义，联合一切可以联合的力量，在全球建立反帝国主义、反霸权主义的国家联盟，以正义联盟对抗帝国主义霸权联盟；

5. Vigorously promoting the spirit of independence and self-reliance, using national efforts to achieve breakthroughs in high-tech and high-end manufacturing, breaking the United States blockade of China’s high-tech and high-end manufacturing, launching a national economic “double-cycle” system, and establishing a Eurasian continental economic system and a global RMB settlement system at the international level.

五是大力宣传独立自主、自力更生的精神，以举国之力实现高科技和高端制造业突破，打破美国对中国在高科技和高端制造业方面的封锁，启动国家经济“双循环”体系，在国际上建立欧亚大陆经济体系和全球人民币结算体系；

6. Resolutely break the strategic encirclement of China by the United States, liberate Taiwan with strong willpower, break through the first and second island chains constructed by the United States, and realize a strategic breakthrough against the United States.

六是坚决打破美国对中国的战略围堵，以强大的意志力解放台湾，突破美国构建的第一、第二岛链，实现对美国战略突围；

7. Resolutely renounce any illusions about the United States, to mobilize the people for war at home, to vigorously publicize the war against the United States, to vigorously publicize the spirit of the Shangganling, and to make the economic layout of the country with a war mentality.

七是坚决放弃对美国的任何幻想，在国内对国民进行战争动员，大力宣传抗美援朝战争，大力宣传上甘岭精神，以战争思维做好国家经济布局；

8. Prepare for war and famine, make food and energy reserves, sell all U.S. bonds, ship back Chinese gold reserves in the U.S., withdraw scientists, scholars, and foreign students in the U.S., and be prepared for a complete break in relations with the U.S.

八是备战备荒，做好粮食和能源储备，全部出售美国债券，运回在美国的中国黄金储备，撤回在美科学家、学者、留学生，做好与美国关系完全中断的准备。

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http://www.wyzxwk.com/Article/guofang/2020/08/422027.html

Archived page: https://web.archive.org/web/20200810185240/http://www.wyzxwk.com/Article/guofang/2020/08/422027.html

https://baijiahao.baidu.com/s?id=1674279479795331832&wfr=spider&for=pc

Archived page:

https://web.archive.org/web/20200810185257/https://baijiahao.baidu.com/s?id=1674279479795331832&wfr=spider&for=pc

(Jennifer’s note: Below is the English translation of the excerpt of an article widely circulated on Chinese websites. The author is said to be Li Guangman (李光满), an active author and commentator of current affairs. )

(曾錚注：以下爲流傳於大陸網絡的一篇文章的節選及其英文翻譯。）

How Should China respond to a comprehensive war waged by the United States?

中国如何应对美国发动的综合战争？

1、Comprehensively liquidate U.S. enterprises in China, especially financial and service enterprises, cancel their qualifications to operate in China, and no longer open China’s financial, agricultural and service industries to the U.S. These are the enterprises with the largest U.S. trade surpluses with China, and hit the U.S. where it hurts.

一是全面清理美国在华企业特别是金融及服务类企业，取消这些企业在华经营资格，不再对美国开放中国金融、农业及服务类产业，这是美国对华贸易获得顺差最多的企业，要打就把美国打疼；

2. Vigorously develop nuclear weapons to truly deter the United States from making reckless moves against China with a powerful nuclear deterrent to deter the United States from its madness.

二是是大力发展核武器，真正以强大的核威慑镇慑美国的疯狂，使美国不敢对中国轻举妄动；

3. Raise defense spending to more than 4 percent of GDP, vigorously develop advanced weapons, and genuinely compete with the United States and the United States-led group of imperialist countries with strong defense capabilities.

三是全面提高国防开支，将国防开支提高到占GDP4%以上，大力发展先进武器，真正以强大的国防实力与美国和以美国为首的帝国主义国家集团相抗衡；

4. Put forward a clear-cut proposal to oppose US hegemony, unite all the forces that can be united, build a global anti-imperialist and anti-hegemonic national coalition, and confront the imperialist hegemonic alliance with a just alliance.

四是旗帜鲜明地提出反对美国霸权主义，联合一切可以联合的力量，在全球建立反帝国主义、反霸权主义的国家联盟，以正义联盟对抗帝国主义霸权联盟；

5. Vigorously promoting the spirit of independence and self-reliance, using national efforts to achieve breakthroughs in high-tech and high-end manufacturing, breaking the United States blockade of China’s high-tech and high-end manufacturing, launching a national economic “double-cycle” system, and establishing a Eurasian continental economic system and a global RMB settlement system at the international level.

五是大力宣传独立自主、自力更生的精神，以举国之力实现高科技和高端制造业突破，打破美国对中国在高科技和高端制造业方面的封锁，启动国家经济“双循环”体系，在国际上建立欧亚大陆经济体系和全球人民币结算体系；

6. Resolutely break the strategic encirclement of China by the United States, liberate Taiwan with strong willpower, break through the first and second island chains constructed by the United States, and realize a strategic breakthrough against the United States.

六是坚决打破美国对中国的战略围堵，以强大的意志力解放台湾，突破美国构建的第一、第二岛链，实现对美国战略突围；

7. Resolutely renounce any illusions about the United States, to mobilize the people for war at home, to vigorously publicize the war against the United States, to vigorously publicize the spirit of the Shangganling, and to make the economic layout of the country with a war mentality.

七是坚决放弃对美国的任何幻想，在国内对国民进行战争动员，大力宣传抗美援朝战争，大力宣传上甘岭精神，以战争思维做好国家经济布局；

8. Prepare for war and famine, make food and energy reserves, sell all U.S. bonds, ship back Chinese gold reserves in the U.S., withdraw scientists, scholars, and foreign students in the U.S., and be prepared for a complete break in relations with the U.S.

八是备战备荒，做好粮食和能源储备，全部出售美国债券，运回在美国的中国黄金储备，撤回在美科学家、学者、留学生，做好与美国关系完全中断的准备。

Source 轉載自：

http://www.wyzxwk.com/Article/guofang/2020/08/422027.html

https://baijiahao.baidu.com/s?id=1674279479795331832&wfr=spider&for=pc

上月搬到一個安靜的小鎮，每每一出門，就能看見以前住在北京時，要開出去起碼90公里以上才能看見的山野風光。那時孩子還小，我們週末總是帶著孩子去玩。

如今，家已不再，我也沒有再懷念或思念過去的理由。

然而，習慣是頑固的，或者說，記憶，是無法抹滅的？再見我們都深愛的山野風光，自然就還是想起一起欣賞過風光的人兒。

只是，無法再擁有更多的共同記憶了。沒有悵然，但卻沒忍住多年以前，有了好東西就想分享給彼此的習慣……

無從分享了，就寫篇「日記」給自己看吧。

但願「伊人」一切安好。

8/8/2020

開車路過這裏，被黃昏時的靜謐所打動，車也沒下，只是停在馬路中間（反正路上杳無人跡），掏出手機隔着窗戶照了這張。

爲了照清楚這隻鹿，把手機鏡頭放大到8倍，影像就有些模糊了。

鹿似乎感覺到我在照牠，扭過頭到朝我看。

秋收。

秋日黃昏

秋日黃昏

這是數日前照的。臨近黃昏，圓月高懸。

Xi Jinping vs Li Keqiang:The CCP’s Split Goes Public

Hello, everyone! Nice to see you!

The Chinese Communist Party, the CCP’s internal power struggle has never stopped, nor is it a secret anymore. However, the outside world gets little to no chance, to actually see it while it is happening. But recently, this is no longer the case. It seems that the CCP can no longer hide its internal conflicts, or no longer bothers to hide. 

Why do I say this? After today’s news updates,  I will talk about several examples, and discuss the significance behind them, as well as what these incidents mean to China, as well as the world. So make sure you stay.

The 300-year-old Xi’an Church is at Stake of Being  Demolished

Recently posted on Twitter was information about the planned demolition of the Catholic Church on Wuxing Street in Xi’an, the capital city of Shaanxi province. Locals there have raised banners in protest of this decision and the apparent suppression of their religious beliefs.

Roman Catholics in Xi’an, China are protesting the planned demolition of their 300 – year old archdiocese headquarters, the St. Francis Cathedral Known locally as the Wuxing Street Catholic Church.

Originally constructed by Italian missionaries during the Kangxi period of the Qing Dynasty, the castle-like structure has long been considered a historical site worthy of preservation. Parishioners have raised banners to protect the church, and they say this is an attempt to ignore or suppress their constitutional rights to practice their religious beliefs.

A member of the Xi’an media, Mr. Jiang, agreed with this assessment. He said the church has a large congregation and their mistreatment reminded people of the restrictions imposed in the past by the Cultural Revolution). He noted that over the past two years the Chinese Communist Party had been destroying Christian churches, monasteries, and even Buddhist and Taoist temples nationwide, to suppress the will of the people and their beliefs.

A Humiliating Moment

Now, let’s talk about why the CCP’s internal power struggles are becoming more and more intense and obvious.

The first example happened on July 31, at the completion and commissioning ceremony for the Beidou Navigation Satellite System in Beijing.

By the way,the Beidou Navigation Satellite System is a satellite navigation system that the CCP tried to build by mobilizing all the resources of China to compete with and to provide an alternative to America’s GPS, or Global Positioning System. If a war breaks out between the US and the CCP, the CCP’s military capabilities could soon be paralyzed by the US if it doesn’t have its own satellite navigation system.

So, In the CCP’s own words, the newly completed Baidou system is “100 percent made-in-China, showing the country’s ambitions in independently controllable technology breakthroughs”. 

Obviously,  the CCP views the completion of this Beidou system as a very important breakthrough for scientific and technological dominance in the 5G era.  The ceremony to celebrate its completion and commissioning was held in the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, where all the most important CCP meetings are held.The CCP’s head Xi Jinping, Premier Li Keqiang, and many other top leaders all attended the ceremony. The MC of the ceremony was Vice Premier Liu He. I guess many viewers are familiar with him, as he was the one who represented the CCP in the year-long US-China trade talks. 

Now, let’s watch what happens when Liu He introduces the attendants of the ceremony.

Did you see anything wrong here?

After Xi Jinping’s name was announced, Liu He paused for quite a while, giving Xi Jinping enough time to stand up, turn around, and express his appreciation for those who applauded him.

However, after Li Keqiang’s name was announced, and after Li had already stood up, turned around and prepared to do the same as Xi Jinping, Liu He totally ignored him and continued to read the next person’s name, leaving Li Keqiang at a loss for a moment as to what to do, whether to continue to stand or to sit down.

This moment was broadcast live by China’s Central Television and watched by perhaps tens or hundreds of millions. 

Why is This Moment a Big Deal?

Maybe you are thinking: What’s the big deal about this?

Well, for people who know the CCP’s China, this is a VERY BIG deal. 

In all the CCP’s events, and reports about these events, who comes out first, who comes out the second, who follows who, and whose name should appear first in the news report, and the order of the names in the report, etc., all the details are carefully pre-arranged, and no mistakes whatsoever can be made regarding these. 

As the CCP’s system is not an open and transparent one, everything is decided behind closed doors, in the dark, so people have to reply on reading these reports carefully, and read between the lines to try to work out who has had an upper-hand in the power struggles, and how this will affect the country’s policies or the future of China, etc.

So, it is very unusual that such a moment as we just watched would be allowed to happen, be allowed to be broadcast live and be allowed to stay on the Internet for everybody to watch again repeatedly.

The CCP used to talk about “collective leadership”, and all the members of the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau were “collectively responsible” to the party, and therefore enjoyed somewhat similar status when making decisions or in terms of how they were treated publicly. 

So the stark contrast between how Xi Jinping and Li Keqiang were treated at the ceremony tells us that the CCP’s split has reached such a severe degree that they can no longer hide it, or bother to hide it.

“Stall Economy”

Another very obvious sign of the split is the different direction Xi Jinping and Li Keqiang want to head in terms of economic recovery and development. 

In early June, when Li Keqiang visited Yantai, Shandong Province, he highly praised the so-called “Stall Economy” for creating jobs and being practical, down-to-earth, and “the vitality of China”. 

After that, the “Stall Economy” became a hot Internet buzzword. Media reports about such and such person having earned  a big amount of money by running a stall on the street appeared one after another. Cities introduced encouraging policies and netizens were buzzing about what kind of street stall to put up to earn a living.

However, only several days later, on June 6,the CCP’s mouthpiece “Beijing Daily” published an article saying that the “‘Stall Economy’ is not suitable for Beijing.”

China Central Television also published an article to criticize the “Stall Economy”.  People could easily see that there were two different voices inside the CCP.

Poverty or Prosperity?

Earlier than that, on May 28, during this year’s “Two Sessions”, which are the most important annual political gatherings of the CCP, Li Keqiang openly said that China’s per capita annual income was only 30,000 yuan, or about $4325. 

He also said as many as 600 million people were earning less than 1000 yuan or $144 per month, and that about 60 million people needed low-income insurance, unemployment protection and special hardship assistance etc, and the pandemic had made things worse.  He said that the Central Government had to take the lead in living through ‘times of austerity,’ all levels of government  should cut expenditure, and tighten their belts, etc.

You might think these are all common sense and nothing special. But in the CCP’s China, doing or saying things based on common sense is itself a problem.

Li Keqiang’s open admission to China’s difficulties contradicted Xi Jinping’s “China Dream”, as well as Xi’s claim that China had become a “moderately prosperous society” in 2020, and the achievement was even greater than expected.

On June 3, a “self-criticism” was circulated on the Internet. Some Chinese people claimed that it belonged to Li Keqiang and that Li Keqiang was criticized by Xi Jinping and the CCP’s Discipline Inspection Committee, and was forced to admit his mistakes by contradicting Xi Jinping.

We have no idea whether that “self-criticism” is true or not. But from the latest event with the ceremony on July 31, we can see that Li Keqiang was openly humiliated by both Xi Jinping and Liu He. Please note that Liu He is the Vice Premiere and only a subordinate of Li Keqiang in theory. Why did he dare to humiliate Li Keqiang? Did he receive some kind of instruction from Xi Jinping beforehand? We have no idea.

Going back to Mao’s Time or Continuing with the “Reform and Openness”?

But we do know that the CCP’s economy has been hit hard by both the trade war with the US and the pandemic. 

Furthermore, because of the CCP’s cover-up of the pandemic, more and more countries and people are feeling very angry towards the CCP, some are talking about “de-coupling” with China.

That’s why Xi Jinping recently started to talk about the “internal cycle”, which means that China will mainly do business with itself, and cut itself off from the rest of the world.

In other words, Xi Jinping is ready to go back to Mao’s time when Communist China was isolated by the world.

To this, Li Keqiang also gave out a different voice by saying that the “internal cycle” economy wouldn’t work for China 

Is A Coup  Looming?

Interestingly, the Wall Street Journal published an editorial on July 27,  indicating that America’s tough stance on China could convince other CCP leaders that it would be very expensive to continue with Xi Jinjping’s line. Some Chinese commentators say that the Wall Street Journal was calling for a coup to happen inside the CCP.

Is a coup possible? Well, with the split publicly emerging to the surface, we can only say that the fight beneath the surface must be much, much more intense than we know. 

Usually, each year in late July or early August, the CCP will have a meeting, or “summer summit”  at Beidaihe, a resort town by the sea in Hebei province.  It is the most mysterious CCP meeting. Only top current leaders and the most powerful retired elders from earlier generations who still have a lot of influence inside the party can attend this meeting and it  sets the tone for major domestic issues. The nation’s future and fate could be thus decided there by a few people, with nobody knowing who are actually there, what kind of decisions are made, and how  those decisions are made, etc. In this sense, the CCP acts more like a criminal gang,  or a bunch of gangsters, than a normal political party. 

So far this year there are no words regarding when this year’s “Beidaihe Meeting” will be held, who will attend, and what will be discussed, etc.

According to the  Chinese commentary Shi Shan, some powerful CCP elders are very unhappy about Xi Jinping, and want to get rid of him. These people have secretly sent “secret emissaries” to make  contact with the U.S. to find a way out.

Shi Shan says that these elders may stage a coup very soon and bring down Xi Jinping through the internal mechanism of the CCP, just like what happened to  Hua Guofeng in the past. 

By the way, Hua Guofeng was Mao Zedong’s designated successor after Mao died, and was soon  ousted in 1978, after Deng Xiaoping regained power. 

According to Shi Shan, an internal CCP source says that Xi Jinping’s situation is much worse than what Hua Guofeng faced before he was removed from office, as the CCP is facing the hardest time since it established its regime, as the entire world has been angered by the CCP, and especially because the US is now determined to “change the CCP” and has made many moves at diplomatic, economic, military and other levels.

The source also says that Li Keqiang has become very active recently, and has gained nods from those CCP veterans. There are calls from within the party to replace Xi Jinping with Li Keqiang.

If this is true, then the upcoming “Beidaihe Metting”  may well be a decisive moment.

There are also rumors that fearing what could happen at Beidaihe, Xi Jinping will cancel this year’s meeting. 

Shi Shan continues to say that there is no way to tell whether those rumors are true or not. But the fact that rumors keep popping up tells us that the CCP is really facing huge internal problems and divisions. 

The CCP’s Crimes Are Beyond Redemption

What I want to say is that there is nothing surprising if a coup happens, or, if one day the CCP’s central government loses control of  China, and the  local officials start to act on their own. 

However, we must not pin our hope on a coup inside the CCP. To replace one CCP leader with another is meaningless, as the party is corrupt to the core, and the crimes it has committed  all these years are definitely beyond redemption. Even if the CCP really collapses,  , mankind has a long way to go to really clear away its poisonous elements. 

Therefore, the free world must not let up  its efforts of clearing the CCP cancer from our world, so that we can save our nations and our future generations.

That’s all for today. Truth does save lives. Please subscribe to my channel and spread it.

Thank you. See you soon!

8/6/2020

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Information Communication Department Party Branch Goes to Byte Jumping Technology Company for Theme Party Day Activities

信息传播部党支部赴字节跳动科技公司开展主题党日活动

(Jennifer’s note: Following is the full translations of a report at https://c.m.163.com/news/a/EL1772BO05322C4C.html (archived version at https://archive.vn/KF7gI in case the original report is deleted) .

(曾錚注：以下這篇報導顯示字節跳動公司內存在黨支部，且直接接受中共領導的報導，網址爲https://c.m.163.com/news/a/EL1772BO05322C4C.html （如果這個刪了，這裏有備份：https://archive.vn/KF7gI ）

In the afternoon of July 24 （2019）, the Party branch of the Information and Communication Department and the Haidian District Overseas Chinese Federation (HCTF) went to Beijing ByteDance Technology Company to carry out joint theme party day activities under the theme of “Never forget the original heart, remember the mission, and promote the new era of overseas Chinese federation information dissemination work”, and conducted research at the company’s headquarters.

为贯彻落实会党组“不忘初心、牢记使命”主题教育工作部署，进一步推动主题教育往深里走、心里走，实里走，（2019年） 7月24日下午，信息传播部党支部与海淀区侨联党支部，以“不忘初心、牢记使命，推进新时代侨联信息传播工作”为主题，赴北京字节跳动科技公司开展联合主题党日活动，并在公司总部进行座谈调研。

Comrades gained in-depth understanding of the company’s development history and technological innovation. The company’s technical staff introduced in detail its core products ” Toutiao” and “Tiktok” short video operation mechanism, which is to offer an intelligent recommendation of personalized information for users, and to create a brand new online experience mode, through massive information collection, in-depth data mining and user behavior analysis. The company has set up a content quality center to check the content released at every level to create clear cyberspace. Comrades vividly experienced the rapid development of information technology, and deeply appreciate the strong momentum of the rapid development of media integration.

同志们深入了解公司的发展历程和科技创新成果，公司技术人员详细介绍了旗下核心产品“今日头条”和“抖音短视频”的运作机制，通过海量信息采集、深度数据挖掘和用户行为分析，为用户智能推荐个性化信息，开创全新的网上体验模式，同时，公司成立了内容质量中心，对所发布内容层层把关，营造清朗的网络空间。同志们真切感受到信息科技的日新月异，深刻体会到媒体融合飞速发展的强劲势头。

(Jennifer’s note: the original Chinese report doesn’t offer a photo caption for this. The Chinese characters on the screen say “Never forget the original heart, remember the mission, and promote the new era of overseas Chinese federation information dissemination work”)

During the discussion and exchange, Shi Yue, secretary of the Party branch of Haidian District Overseas Chinese Federation, introduced the basic situation of the District Overseas Chinese Federation and the general situation of promoting information dissemination work, and Feng Kaixu, deputy secretary of the Party committee and deputy editor-in-chief of ByteDance, introduced the company’s business and Party building work. Zuo Zhiqiang, secretary of the Party branch of the Information Dissemination Department, introduced the basic situation of the department and the purpose of this research, and talked about three points of experience on doing the new era of information dissemination work of the Overseas Chinese Federation in conjunction with thematic education: first, to enhance the political understanding. The study and implementation of Xi Jinping’s new era of socialism with Chinese characteristics as the mainline of theme education, reflected in the study and education, investigation and research, review of the problem, rectification and implementation of various aspects, with a new era of mission to perform their duties and promote the information dissemination work of the Overseas Chinese Federation. Second, keep up with media integration. Use modern means, with the power of science and technology, to promote the Overseas Chinese Federation of propaganda work more widely and more deeply. Thirdly, use well the Internet and manage the Internet well. In the new era, it is necessary to develop new ideas, keep pace with the development of artificial intelligence, innovate means and methods, strengthen the construction of Overseas Chinese Federation of Information Technology, and guard the bottom line of network security.

在座谈交流中，海淀区侨联党支部书记石岳介绍了区侨联的基本情况和推进信息传播工作的总体情况，字节跳动公司党委副书记、副总编辑封开许介绍了公司业务及党建工作情况。信息传播部党支部书记左志强介绍了部门基本情况和此次调研目的，并就结合主题教育做好新时代侨联信息传播工作谈了三点体会：一是提高政治站位。把学习贯彻习近平新时代中国特色社会主义思想作为主题教育的主线，体现到学习教育、调查研究、检视问题、整改落实各方面，以新时代的使命担当履职尽责，推进侨联信息传播工作。二是紧跟媒体融合。利用现代化手段，借助科技力量，推动侨联宣传工作更广泛、更深入。三是用好网、管好网。新时代要开拓新思路，紧跟人工智能的发展步伐，创新手段方法，加强侨联信息化建设，守好网络安全底线。

(Jennifer’s note: Jennifer’s note: the original Chinese report doesn’t offer a photo caption for this. According to the name card, the woman on the left is Shi Yue secretary of the Party branch of Haidian District Overseas Chinese Federation, the man next to her is Zuo Zhiqiang, secretary of the Party branch of the Information Dissemination Department

This joint theme party day activity is an important practice of the party branch of the Information Communication Department to promote party building in the department around theme education, and is an organic integration with the business work. Through this party day activity, all party members have a profound understanding of the new era of overseas Chinese information dissemination work, further enhance the “four consciousness”, firm “four self-confidence”, consciously do “two maintenance”. “, which reinforces the sense of responsibility and accountability.

此次联合主题党日活动是信息传播部党支部围绕主题教育，推进部门党建的重要实践，是与业务工作的有机结合。全体党员通过此次党日活动，对做好新时代侨联信息传播工作有了深刻认识，进一步增强了“四个意识”，坚定了“四个自信”，自觉做到“两个维护”，强化了责任意识和担当精神。

Haidian District Overseas Chinese Federation Party Branch Goes to Toutiao to Carry Out Theme Party Day Activities

海淀区侨联党支部赴今日头条开展主题党日活动

(Jennifer’s Toutiao is a Chinese news and information content platform, a core product of the Beijing-based company ByteDance. This report is published on the government website at http://hdql.bjhd.gov.cn/ztjj/srkzddqzlxjysjhd/201908/t20190807_4341324.htm (archived version at https://archive.vn/iztoh in case the original report is deleted).

（曾錚注：以下報導來自政府網站：http://hdql.bjhd.gov.cn/ztjj/srkzddqzlxjysjhd/201908/t20190807_4341324.htm (備份：https://archive.vn/iztoh ）

In the afternoon of July 24, (2019), the Party branch of Overseas Chinese Federation in Haidian District and the Party branch of Information Dissemination Department of Overseas Chinese Federation in China, under the theme of “Never forget the original heart, keep the mission in mind, and promote the information dissemination work of Overseas Chinese Federation in the new era”, carried out a joint theme party day activity at Toutiao, and visited the company’s headquarters and had a discussion and research. Feng Kaixu, deputy secretary of the Party Committee and deputy editor-in-chief of Toutiao, introduced the company’s business and Party building work.

(2019年）7月24日下午，海淀区侨联党支部与中国侨联信息传播部党支部，以“不忘初心、牢记使命，推进新时代侨联信息传播工作”为主题，赴今日头条开展联合主题党日活动，并在公司总部参观并座谈调研。今日头条党委副书记、副总编辑封开许介绍了公司业务及党建工作情况。

During the discussion and exchange, Shi Yue, secretary of the Party branch of District Overseas Chinese Federation, introduced the construction of information dissemination work carriers such as District Overseas Chinese Federation website, WeChat public account, “Haidian Overseas Chinese Voice” magazine, introduced the District Overseas Chinese Federation in recent years to adapt to changes in the situation of overseas Chinese, adhere to the correct ideological orientation, with the Party leading overseas Chinese construction, and actively explore the information dissemination work means in line with the development of the times and close to the young overseas Chinese community, such as webcasting and other ways, and vigorously promote the information dissemination work of the overseas Chinese Federation. Promote Haidian construction and showcase the Haidian overseas Chinese community. She hopes to have more cooperation with Toutiao in the future, to gather the strength of the overseas Chinese community, tell well the Chinese story and spread the voice of the overseas Chinese community.

座谈交流中，区侨联党支部书记石岳介绍了区侨联网站、微信公众号、《海淀侨声》杂志等推进信息传播工作载体建设情况，介绍了区侨联在近年来适应侨情变化，坚持正确意识形态导向，以党建带侨建，积极探索契合时代发展、贴近年轻侨界的如网络直播等多种方式的信息传播工作手段，大力宣传海淀建设、展示海淀侨界风采。她希望今后与今日头条有更多合作，凝聚侨界力量，讲好中国故事，传播侨界声音。

Zuo Zhiqiang, Party Secretary of the Information Communication Department of the Overseas Chinese Federation of China, introduced the basic situation of the department and the purpose of this research, and talked about three points of experience on doing the information communication work of the new era of the Overseas Chinese Federation of China in conjunction with the theme education: one is to improve the political position. The study and implementation of Xi Jinping’s new era of socialism with Chinese characteristics as the mainline of theme education, reflected in the study and education, investigation and research, review of the problem, rectification and implementation of various aspects, with a new era of mission to perform their duties and promote the information dissemination work of the Overseas Chinese Federation. Second, keep up with media integration. Use modern means, with the power of science and technology, to promote the Overseas Chinese Federation of propaganda work more widely and more deeply. Thirdly, use the Internet and manage the Internet well. In the new era, it is necessary to develop new ideas, keep pace with the development of artificial intelligence, innovate means and methods, strengthen the construction of Overseas Chinese Federation of Information Technology, and guard the bottom line of network security.

中国侨联信息传播部党支部书记左志强介绍了部门基本情况和此次调研目的，并就结合主题教育做好新时代侨联信息传播工作谈了三点体会：一是提高政治站位。把学习贯彻习近平新时代中国特色社会主义思想作为主题教育的主线，体现到学习教育、调查研究、检视问题、整改落实各方面，以新时代的使命担当履职尽责，推进侨联信息传播工作。二是紧跟媒体融合。利用现代化手段，借助科技力量，推动侨联宣传工作更广泛、更深入。三是用好网、管好网。新时代要开拓新思路，紧跟人工智能的发展步伐，创新手段方法，加强侨联信息化建设，守好网络安全底线。

The joint theme party day activity is the Haidian District Overseas Chinese Association Party branch to seriously implement the central, municipal and district committees on doing “do not forget the original heart, remember the mission” theme education activities of the deployment and requirements, warm up in advance, first move, first learn, study the original work and carry out business work, theoretical study and investigation and research, organic combination. Working together to promote party building and Overseas Chinese Associations work. Through this party day activity, all party members not only had a profound understanding of doing the information dissemination work of Overseas Chinese Federation in the new era, but also further enhanced the “four consciousness”, strengthened the “four self-confidence” and consciously did the “two maintenance”. “, which reinforces the sense of responsibility and accountability.

此次联合主题党日活动是海淀区侨联党支部认真贯彻落实中央、市委和区委关于做好“不忘初心、牢记使命”主题教育活动的部署与要求，提前预热，先动起来，先学起来，学习原著与开展业务工作有机结合，理论学习与调查研究有机结合，共同推进党建和侨联工作。全体党员通过此次党日活动，不仅对做好新时代侨联信息传播工作有了深刻认识，而且进一步增强了“四个意识”，坚定了“四个自信”，自觉做到“两个维护”，强化了责任意识和担当精神。

The Information and Propaganda Bureau of the Ministry of Public Security of signs a strategic cooperation agreement with ByteDance

 The ceremony of The National Public Security New Media Matrix Settling in Today’s Headlines & Tiktok Held in Beijing

(Jennifer’s note: This is a full translation of the report of the “China Police Network” website at https://archive.vn/Ht63t. Photos and photo captions are obtained from the CCP’s police’s account on Sohu website at https://archive.vn/JHUSu)

(曾錚注：以下英文報導翻譯自「中國警察網」報導：https://archive.vn/Ht63t，圖片及圖片說明來自中共警察搜狐公衆號圖片報導： https://archive.vn/JHUSu）

China Police Net, Beijing, April 25, 2009 – On April 25, the Information and Propaganda Bureau of the Ministry of Public Security signed a strategic cooperation contract with ByteDance and a ceremony for the entry of the national public security new media matrix into today’s headlines and Tiktok was held in Beijing, reports Shi Yang. 　　

中国警察网北京4月25日电 记者石杨报道：25日，公安部新闻宣传局与字节跳动战略合作签约暨全国公安新媒体矩阵入驻今日头条、抖音仪式在京举行。

On April 25, the Ministry of Public Security’s Bureau of Public Information and Propaganda signed a strategic cooperation agreement with ByteDance and a ceremony was held in Beijing to mark the entry of the national public security new media matrix into Today’s Headlines and TikTok. The entry of the national public security new media matrix marks the perfection of the multi-format, three-dimensional and multi-level communication matrix which has its own new App, as well as accounts at WeBo, WeChat, and TikTok. 4月25日，公安部新闻宣传局与字节跳动战略合作签约暨全国公安新媒体矩阵入驻今日头条、抖音仪式在京举行。此次全国公安新媒体矩阵入驻，标志着公安机关“两微一端”+“一抖”的多形态、立体化、多层级传播矩阵更加完善。

In recent years, public security organs around the world have taken the initiative to adapt to the profound changes in the ecology of public opinion, media communication patterns and reading habits of the audience in the era of all media, and actively promote the integration and development of public security media in the era of all media. Public security new media accounts have emerged a large number of professionals who love new media and make good use of them. As of April 2019, public security organs across the country have opened more than 50,000 various new media accounts, covering more than 100 million fans and nearly 100 billion annual readers, making it one of the largest and most scalable new media clusters for government affairs.

近年来，各地公安机关积极主动适应全媒体时代社会舆论生态、媒体传播格局和受众阅读习惯的深刻变化，积极推动全媒体时代公安媒体融合发展，充分运用新技术新平台新应用，创新传播方式手段，发好公安声音、讲好警察故事、树好队伍形象、密切警民关系，打造了一大批具有社会影响力的公安新媒体帐号，涌现出一大批热爱新媒体、善用新媒体的专业人才。截至2019年4月，全国公安机关共开设各类新媒体帐号超过5万个，覆盖粉丝规模过亿，年阅读量近千亿，是体量最大、最具规模的政务新媒体集群之一。

Address by Mr. Zhan Jun, Secretary of the Party Committee and Director of the Information and Propaganda Bureau of the Ministry of Public Security. 图：公安部新闻宣传局党委书记、局长战俊致辞

On the basis of complementary advantages, integration and cooperation, joint development and mutual benefit, the Information and Propaganda Bureau of the Ministry of Public Security and ByteDance signed a strategic cooperation framework agreement, aiming to give full play to the professional technology and platform advantages of Today’s Headlines and Tiktok in big data analysis, accurate push, creative planning, etc., and integrate high-quality resources from both sides to further strengthen the public security new media professional capacity training and talent team. In addition, the company is also working to strengthen the creation and production of new media works for public security, improve the level of account operation and management, enhance the influence of the network and the right to speak online, further enhance the public security propaganda communication power and guidance influence public credibility, promote the public security organs media integration to develop in-depth, better serve the central work of public security and public security team construction, and create a good public opinion atmosphere for the development and progress of public security work in the new era.

此次公安部新闻宣传局与字节跳动科技有限公司本着优势互补、融和协作、共同发展、互利共赢的原则，签署战略合作框架协议，旨在充分发挥今日头条、抖音在大数据分析、精准推送、创意策划等方面的专业技术和平台优势，整合双方优质资源，进一步加强公安新媒体专业能力培养和人才队伍建设，加强公安新媒体作品创作生产，提高帐号运营管理水平，提升网络影响力和网上话语权，进一步提升公安宣传传播力引导力影响力公信力，推动公安机关媒体融合向纵深发展，更好地服务公安中心工作和公安队伍建设，为新时代公安工作发展进步营造良好舆论氛围。

Speech by Mr. Chen Zhifeng , Vice President of ByteDance 字节跳动公司副总裁陈志锋致辞

Reporters learned at the meeting, under the framework of strategic cooperation, the Information and Propaganda Bureau of the Ministry of Public Security will continue to improve the accounts of the Ministry of Public Security at Today’s Headline, and Tiktok, organize police officers from the department of traffic control, network security, criminal investigation and other multi-police matrices to open accounts at Today’s Headline, and Tiktok. Geographically, police accounts at Today’s Headlines should cover all four levels including ministry, bureau, city and county. Accounts at Tiktok should provide full coverage at local municipal level, to form the national public security Today’s Headlins+Tiktok multi-format, three-dimensional, multi-level communication matrix. In light of the major decisions and deployments of the Central Committee and the Party Committee of the Ministry and the central work of the public security organs, as well as important propaganda nodes, significant advanced and typical, the two sides jointly plan positive energy theme of the Tiktok challenge and micro-topic topics, mobilizing the national public security Today’s Headlines and Tiktok matrix power to focus on the release of relevant thematic content, forming a convergence effect to maximize the dissemination effect. In addition, in-depth cooperation with the Public Security Ministry should be strengthened. At the same time, the two parties will jointly plan offline activities.

记者在会上了解到，在战略合作框架下，公安部新闻宣传局将不断完善全国公安头条号和抖音号矩阵，组织交管、网安、刑侦等多警种矩阵入驻，从地域上组建头条号部、局、市、县四级全覆盖，抖音号地市级全覆盖，形成全国公安头条+抖音的多形态、立体化、多层级传播矩阵。结合中央和部党委重大决策部署和公安机关中心工作，以及重要宣传节点、重大先进典型，双方共同策划正能量主题的抖音挑战赛和微话题专题，调动全国公安头条和抖音矩阵力量，集中发布相关主题内容，形成聚合效应，达到最大化的传播效果。此外，还加强与公安业务深度合作，共同策划线下活动。

Gao Chao, Deputy Director of the Ministry of Public Security’s Bureau of Public Information and Propaganda, and Chen Zhifeng, Vice President of ByteDance, signed a strategic cooperation agreement between the Ministry of Public Security’s Bureau of Public Information and Beijing ByteDance Technology Co. 公安部新闻宣传局副局长高潮和字节跳动副总裁陈志锋，共同签署公安部新闻宣传局与北京字节跳动科技有限公司战略合作协议

Zhan Jun, Secretary of the Party Committee and Director of the Ministry of Public Security’s Bureau of Information and Propaganda, and Chen Zhifeng, Vice President of ByteDance, announce the entry of the national public security new media matrix into Today’s Headlines and TikTok. 公安部新闻宣传局党委书记、局长战俊与字节跳动副总裁陈志锋共同宣布全国公安新媒体矩阵入驻今日头条、抖音

The Most Influential Police TikTok Short Video Representative “Beijing SWAT” shared the operation experience with the person in charge of operation 最具影响力警务抖音短视频代表“北京SWAT”运营负责人分享运营经验

The most influential police TikTok account “Siping Police” operation manager shares operating experience 最具影响力警务抖音号代表“四平警事”运营负责人分享运营经验

Hello, everyone, nice to see you!

After today’s news updates, I will talk about a very hot issue and a very hot video: The possibility of the collapse of the Three Gorges Dam.  So stay tuned.

First, let’s go to our news updates.

Huawei Announces ‘End of Global 5G Deployment’

As more countries are joining the United States to reject Huawei as an enterprise of the Chinese Communist Party, the CCP, the once ambitious telecoms giant is announcing that its global 5G deployment “has come to an end.”

At the start of this year, the Chinese company Huawei was recognized as the world’s largest 5G cell phone maker, surpassing Samsung in global sales. But on July 27, Hauwei’s chairman, Guo Ping announced that the company’s meteoric expansion had come to an end. Their focus on infrastructure development and product distribution would be shifted to developing applications. 

This large-scale business downturn was not sudden, but the result of growing awareness around the world of Hauwei’s sinister intentions on behalf of the Chinese Communist Party, the CCP. Hauwei’s goal to achieve cyber domination via it’s “One Belt One Road” initiative involving 70 countries was not to improve the quality of life, as they would like you to believe, but to facilitate the regime’s desire to expand communist totalitarianism.

The CCP’s true intentions became apparent as countries across the free world began to recognize Hauwei’s efforts in attempting to breach their security so as to facilitate the regime’s spying and theft of technology.

The plan to combat this communist threat is to disrupt Hauwei’s material supply chain so their 5G products can’t be manufactured and to engage multiple countries in banning the introduction and use of those products.

The United States has already restricted the export of semiconductor chips to Hauwei and Taiwan’s TSMC, the world’s leading chip foundry announced it was halting its distribution of materials to Hauwei.

Not only has Hauwei become unsustainable as a manufacturer, Great Britain, France, and Italy are taking actions to ban the introduction of their 5G products and it is anticipated that other countries will do the same.

Urumqi Hit Hard by the CCP Virus, Modular Hospital Being Built

If you are familiar with the map of China, you’ll know that Xinjiang autonomous region is thousands of miles away from Wuhan, the city where the CCP virus originated. Right now, the region is again hit hard by the virus.

The city of Urumqi within China’s Xinjiang region is struggling to contain the spread of the COVID 19 virus. Residents there were recently quarantined for two weeks, but even then, the virus continued its spread. On July 26 and 27, a total of 98 new cases were confirmed.

This recent outbreak prompted city officials to do as other nearby cities have done which is to issue a “City Closure Order.” The intent of which is to isolate the residents by restricting their travel and in the hardest-hit areas, sealing people’s doors so they can’t leave their homes. An online video also showed the building of a modular hospital to treat the growing number of patients.

Authorities in Xinjiang have not explained the cause of this recent outbreak or how bad it could potentially become. This lack of transparency as well as being forcibly isolated has created economic hardships for the local residents who are now upset and complaining.

A report by The Epoch Times suggested that the resurgence of the virus in Urumqi began on July 5 and was likely caused by the lack of social distancing. On that day, a thousand people had attended a wedding banquet. Additional cases are highly probable.

Banks Are Disappearing

Human life losses are not the only form of loss caused by the CCP virus. The banking industry in China is also suffering and has been shrinking at an accelerated pace.

China’s Daily Securities reports that traditional banks are disappearing. So far this year 1,639 banks have closed their doors. This is twice the number of banks that closed last year.

Not only has the COVID 19 virus deterred people from visiting their local banks, but it has also wrecked the economy causing millions to lose their jobs and incomes. Without money, jobless workers don’t need a bank.

Nor do people with jobs need a traditional bank, say industry observers like an international commentator, Wen Xiaogang. It has become fast, safe, and convenient for people to do their banking online. Paychecks are directly deposited and money is now commonly exchanged electronically via services like WeChat, Alipay, and PayPal, to name just a few.

A Preview of the collapse of the Three Gorges Dam

Now, let’s go right to our main topic today: The possibility of the collapse of the Three Gorges Dam. 

If you are following me on Twitter or Facebook, you must have seen a lot of video clips I shared regarding how badly and widespread the floods in China have been this year. After seeing the severity of the floods, people started to worry about the safety of the Three Gorges Dam, especially after some photos were circulated on the Internet showing that the dam had distorted.

After keeping quiet about the possible distortion of the dam for a while, on July 18, Chinese authorities admitted the Three Gorges dam has “moved, leaked, and distorted.” On the same day, the dam saw its most severe flooding of the year.

However, the Chinese authorities did not give any specific data on the displacement, seepage, and deformation, only stating in general terms that it was “within the normal range”. 

On July 23, a short video appeared on Chinese social media, with a vivid 3D computer-generated demonstration of what could happen if the Three Gorges Dam breaks. 

The video starts with some basic specifics of the Three Gorges Dam: It is 181 meters high, 2355 meters long. Normal water storage height is 175 meters, with a total capacity of 39.3 billion cubic meters.

Then it starts to show what will happen when the dam suddenly collapses, with a note that all the data used for this demonstration is just an estimation, and should not be used as an actual reference.

Next, the video demonstrates what could happen after the dam breaks. 

The flood will quickly pour down, with a water lever as high as 100 meters. The floodwaters cannot disperse because of the barrier of the mountains on both sides. 

The speed of the downpour water will be faster than 100 km, or 62 miles per hour. 

Within 30 minutes of the collapse of the Three Gorges Dam, the floodwater will destroy Gezhouba Dam, which is 38 km, or 24 miles downstream of the Three Gorges Dam. Then the flood will arrive at Yichang City, the first city immediately downstream of the Three Gorges Dam. The length of the river between Yichang and the Three Gorges Dam is 50 km or 31 miles. 

At this stage, the water level will be 20 meters, with a flow rate of 70 km, or 44 miles per hour. The entire Yichang city will be completely destroyed in no time. 

Please note that Yichang has a population of 4.13 million.

Within 5 hours, the water level of Yichang will reach 10 meters. 

After swallowing up Yichang, the flood washes on, and continues to flood all the towns and cities along its way with a flow rate at no less than 60 km or 37 miles per hour. The level of the flood will be 15-20 meters.

Then it will reach open plains. The water will begin to spread around the area and continue to fan out, greatly increasing the area affected.

The water level will then be reduced to less than 8 meters, with a flow rate of 25 km, or 15 miles per hour.

However, the flow rate at the main channel of the Yangtze River will be no less than 35 km, or 21 miles per hour. 

Then it will reach Jingzhou, a city in Hubei province, with a population of 6.37 million. The water level will be 7 meter.

After flooding Jingzhou, part of the floodwaters spreading out of the main river will head straight for Wuhan.

5 hours after the collapse, the flood water will reach Yueyang, a city in Hunan province, and about 350 km, or 217 miles away from the Dam. Dongting Lake near Yueyang City has a capacity of 22 billion cubic meters. If the collapse doesn’t happen during the flood season, the lake can become a great buffer to the floodwaters. 

Yueyang’s population is near 6 million, and the water level will be 5 meters here. However, because of the buffering and diversion of Dongting Lake, the city will not be flooded for a long time.

Then widespread flooding continues to push eastward. After being buffered by another lake, Hong Lake, part of the water will be held there. Hong Lake’s total capacity is about 16 billion cubic meters.

The length of the river course between the Three Gorges Dam and Wuhan city is 700 km, or 435 miles. So 10 hours after the Dam collapses, the flood will reach Wuhan. 

From the COVID 19, or CCP Virus pandemic, we all know that Wuhan’s population is about 11 million. 

Wuhan is 18-40 meters above sea level and the floodwaters will reach about 7 meters above ground level of Wuhan.  Part of Wuhan could be preserved, while the depth of flooding will be about 5 meters.

However, due to the sudden narrowing of the waterway after Wuhan, the flood water will be discharged slowly and the water in Wuhan is not easy to recede.

The Dabie Mountains and Lushan Mountain form a narrow passage as the flood flows on. Floodwaters will pile up here, and the water level will rise to 6-8 meters. The height and flow rate will both increase. 

15 hours after the collapse, the floodwaters will arrive at Jiujiang, a city in Jiangxi Province, and 1000 km, or 621 miles away from the Dam in terms of river length. 

As there are many lakes in the territory of Jiujiang, which is close to Poyang Lake, and with the mountains at the back, the flooding in Jiujiang city will reach more than 7 meters if the collapse happens during the flood season, and the water is difficult to retreat.

Jiujiang has a population of around 5 million. 

Poyang Lake has the capacity to hold 30 billion cubic meters of water.  If it is not in the flood season, the lake will hold part of the floodwater.

The video continues to show which cities will be flooded, how many people live in those cities, and how deep the water level will be in those places. So far we can see 13 cities are listed on the screen.

The flood will again disperse after entering into open areas, with some of the water being retained by the lakes.

24 hours after the Dam collapses, the flood will reach Nanjing, the capital city of Jiangsu Province, which is 1500 km, or 932 miles away from the Dam in terms of river length, and has a population of over 8 million.

The video goes on to say that after the flood enters Nanjing, it will be almost over, and the damage will not be that severe. 

However, if the collapse happens in the flood season, Nanjing will also be in danger. 

At the end, the video says that this video only demonstrates the situations of cities that are above the prefecture-level, which are all relatively big cities and located along the Yangtze River’s waterway. Most importantly, the model is based on the non-flood season, when major lakes still have the capacity to contain a lot of water. 

Based on this model, the total affected population will be nearly 72 million.

However, the video ends by saying that if the Three Gorges Dam does unfortunately break, the chance of it happening in the flood season will be greater than 80%.

What Does the Release of Such a Video Mean? Why Now?

If you are seeing this video for the first time, I guess you are still trying to make sense of and digest all the information you just received. After this process, you might start asking: Who has made such a video? Why was it made? And why was it released now?

Well, for some Chinese observers, who have been following the flooding situations and the Dam for a long time, the following points are certain:

1. The video was professionally made, with a lot of professionally gathered data. It is unlikely that such a video could be “randomly” produced by some random individuals. It is more like an officially, or at least semi-officially made one. 

2. Why was it made and released now? Please note that this video was released just one day after the CCP officials admitted that the dam had “moved, leaked, and distorted”. So could the release of the video a “soft” form of warning to the public to get them mentally prepared for the possible collapse?

Another thing to notice is that although the video says at the end that if the dam really breaks, it is highly possible that this will happen during the flooding season. However, the producer of the video chose data of the non-flooding season to establish their model. So it could be that the producer, or the persons who asked to have a video done, wanted to downplay the disastrous consequences while still giving out some kind of warnings.

How Possible Is It that the Dam Will Break?

How possible is it that the Dam will break? Among many experts who opposed the construction of the dam, Professor Huang Wanli was the most famous. He was a Chinese hydrologist and a professor at Tsinghua University. He gained his Master’s and Doctoral degrees in the US and had devoted his entire life to China’s water resources management and utilization. 

Before the construction of the Three Gorges Dam started, between 1992 to 1993,  Huang Wanli wrote  3 letters to the then CCP head Jiang Zemin to strongly oppose the Three Gorges project. He said,  “The Three Gorges Dam on the Yangtze River should simply not be constructed at all.  It is not a question of whether we should build it sooner or later… This project is a disaster for the country and the people. If it is built, we will eventually be forced to blow it up.”

In summary, Huang Wanli predicted 12 catastrophic consequences of the Three Gorges Dam.

1. The collapse of the lower Yangtze River’s dry embankment; 

2. Obstruction of navigation; 

3. Migration problems; 

4. Siltation problems; 

5. Deterioration of water quality; 

6. Insufficient power generation; 

7. Climatic anomalies; 

8. Frequent earthquakes; 

9. The spread of schistosomiasis  [ˌʃɪstəsoʊ’maɪəsɪs]

10. Ecological deterioration; 

11. Serious flooding for upstream; 

12. An eventual blow-up of the Dam.

 Huang Wanli had already passed away in 2001. Up to now, 11 out of his 12 predictions have all come true. The only one that has not come true it the prediction that the dam will be blown up. 

Will it be blown up or not? Many people don’t think it will, as the CCP cares about its face more than the safety of the Dam, or the people who will be affected. The Three Gorges Dam was boasted by the CCP as a great achievement, how can it blow it up to slap its own face?

It is true that the CCP has realized that the dam is facing mounting pressure, and is becoming more and more dangerous. This can be reflected in the news titles of CCP’s propaganda about the dam over the years. Let’s check a few.

In 2003, the news title says, “The Three Gorges Dam is as strong as iron. It can withstand floods as big as once in every 10,000 years.”

In 2007, the news title says: “The Three Gorges Dam can withstand floods as big as once in every thousand years.”

In 2008, the title says,  “The Three Gorges Dam can withstand floods as big as once in every hundred years.”

In 2010, the title goes like this: “Yangtze River Conservancy Commission: We shouldn’t pin all hopes on the Three Gorges Dam.”

On Jul 12, 2020, it becomes: “The Three Gorges Dam has done its best, please stop blaming it!”

Then we had the video that gives us a “preview” of what could happen after the dam breaks.

 Again, how possible is it that the Dam will break? My own guess is, the chance is low, as the CCP will choose to release the water, flood the downstream areas, and sacrifice the people to reduce the pressure of the dam. As a matter of fact, it has been doing so already. Why is the flooding situation so bad this year? This is one of the reasons. 

For example, not long ago, on July 20, close to 200,000 homes were flooded in four villages and towns in WangJiaBa of Anhui province, after the authorities opened the dam for the 16th time. So the CCP won’t hesitate to do such a thing.

However, if earthquakes happen in the area, the safety of the dam will be a huge problem.  We can only say fingers crossed that this won’t happen. 

 Real Tragedy 

 The real tragedy for ordinary people in China is, they don’t have a say with virtually anything.  Actually, not only ordinary Chinese but also the so-called experts and policy advisers.

For example, from 1991 to 1997, I worked at the Technology and Economy Department of the  Development Research Center of the State Council of China. It is the highest level government policy research and consultant body for the state council, and my department was especially responsible for natural resources and environmental protection policy. Therefore, we were naturally responsible for reviewing the feasibility study of the Three Gorges Dam.

What I could reveal is, all the experts in our department, including one who was a classmate of the CCP head Jiang Zemin, were strongly against the Three Gorges Dam project.  We surely submitted our report of at least one inch thick.

However, nothing could stop the project from going on. Sometimes I doubted whether our report was opened or read by the leaders at all. That was one of the reasons why I eventually chose to leave the Development Research Center of the State Council because I felt my job there was useless and meaningless.

For the people who have been affected by the Dam, which was built without their consent, apart from having to suffer the consequences, they are not notified when the authorities secretly release the water. They have no access to true information to make decisions should something big happen. All they can do is to silently endure whatever is thrown to them. And sometimes, they have to thank the CCP for allowing them to live on, no matter how miserable lives can be under the CCP.

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Hello, everyone, nice to see you.

The past week can be called an unprecedented one in terms of US-China relations.

Why do I say so? I’ll talk about this after some news updates.

“No. 3 Flood” Hits Chongqing

Heavy rain has battered central and southern China over the past few weeks, causing widespread flooding. A third wave of severe flooding, referred to as the “No. 3 flood,” hit Chongqing on July 27, causing an ancient thousand-year-old town in Chongqing to be flooded. Let’s take a look.

A third wave of severe flooding, referred to as the “No. 3 flood of 2020 in Yangtze River” formed in the upper reaches of the Yangtze River On July 26 and it hit Chongqing the next day. The local water levels of the Yangtze and Jialing Rivers continued to rise. Ciqikou, an ancient thousand-year-old Town in Chongqing, on the banks of the Jialing River, the water level exceeded the warning level by more than 3 meters at 10 am on the 27th. Dozens of shops along the river with the lowest terrain have been flooded. The water level in Ciqikou is 184.07 meters.

The river has flooded the Chaotianmen, a landmark building in Chongqing, half of which is submerged in water. Land sliding happened in several places and two people were killed.

According to the local Hydrological Bureau, the inflow of the Three Gorges Dam reached 60,000 cubic meters per second on July 27. A yellow warning for flooding has been issued.

Local officials said the highest water level is expected to appear late on the 27th. 

 The Three Gorges Dam Makes Flooding 25 Times Worse

With southern China suffering unprecedented flooding this year, the safety of the Three Gorges Dam has caused a lot of attention. An expert says that the Dam has worsened the flooding 25 times more than the natural situation.

The Yangtze River is flooding for the third time since the start of the 2020 monsoon season, as heavy torrential rains continue to batter large parts of China, according to a report from The Liberty Times on July 27th.

The Chinese Communist Party has officially ordered the Three Gorges Dam to discharge and protect the dam, including the Huaihe River, Taihu Lake and hundreds of other rivers will also spill water. People downstream will be affected by floods caused by the spilled water plus the heavy rain. 

The previous two waves have created flooding crisis in downstream. The Three Gorges Dam expert Weiluo Wang, who is currently visiting Germany, states that the Three Gorges Dam has no functionality of preventing floods. Research has shown that the Three Gorges Dam has worsened the flooding 25 times more than the natural flooding situation.

TikTok In Trouble, Downloads of Indian and US-made Apps Soar

After India announced its ban on the Chinese video-sharing app TikTok , the ban has now spread internationally, including the United States, and the number of downloads of its competitors’ apps has increased sharply. It seems that TikTok is besieged on all sides. Let’s take a  look. 

The US Congress this week introduced legislation to block federal employees from using TikTok on government-issued devices. The Trump administration’s objective is to fully ban the use of considering TikTok. This is in fear that the Chinese Communist Party, the CCP, is using TikTok to spy on unsuspecting American citizens.

This past June, and in response to similar fears for their national security, India banned TikTok along with 58 other Chinese mobile apps. Then in July, they added an additional 47 Chinese apps to the list of potential spy tools.

According to the market research firm, Sensor Tower, India had been TikTok’s largest market. As such, the combined ban by the US and India wiped out two thirds of Tik Tok’s worldwide market.

Creating further problems for Tik Tok, it’s two largest competitors, Reposo and Dubsmash, have been soaking up the market share it has been losing suggesting it may never be as successful as it once was.

An Unprecedented Week

Obviously, the ban on Tiktok and many other Chinese apps can only happen when the global “tide” is turning against the Chinese Communist Party, the CCP. That is why in the past week, so many unprecedented events happened.

The first one was, of course, the unprecedented move on the US side. That is, ordering the CCP, to close its consulate in Houston. The CCP soon retaliated by closing the US consulate in Chengdu, China.

I first heard the news of the closure of CCP’s consulate in Houston from the radio while I was driving last Wednesday. When I heard that there was a fire inside the consulate, I thought the consulate staff was asked to evacuate only because of the fire. Frankly speaking, I didn’t expect that the true story was just the opposite: The CCP received the closure order first, then they started to burn documents.

Although I’ve been advocating for a world without the CCP, this news was still very surprising for me, as well as for many other overseas Chinese, because for so many years, it seemed nobody was willing to or dared to stand up against the CCP.

The reason for the closure order, according to the US government, was “to protect American intellectual property and American’s private information”. 

Senator Marco Rubio, the Acting Chairman of U.S. Senate Select Committee on Intelligence,  tweeted, “#China’s Houston consulate is a massive spy center, forcing it to close is long overdue.”

Fox News reported that the CCP’s consulate in Houston was targeted because of,  in part,  the CCP’s targeting of U.S. energy firms.

Fox Business quoted Asia analyst Gordon Chang by saying that “Also, there are stories that this consulate had links with protest groups in the United States providing financial and logistical support. That’s unconfirmed.

“But, what is confirmed is that the Chinese Foreign Ministry and the Communist Party’s global ties have been engaged in a malicious disinformation campaign, deliberately stoking racial tensions in the U.S.

“And, U.S. Customs has seized items coming from China this year that would be very handy for protesters”.

As far as I am concerned, all the above reasons could be possible. The consulate in Houston was the CCP’s first consulate in the US. Through many years of operation, it had indeed become “the central node of the Communist Party’s vast network of spies & influence operations in the United States”, as Senator Marco Rubio has put it. 

As early as two years ago, when I covered the news of the arrest of Chinese professor Xie Keping of the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, I learned that the FBI had been holding meetings with top leaders of Texas academic and medical institutions to warn about foreign threats to research and academic institutions. 

Xie Keping himself was one of the 4,180 experts recruited by China to return to the mainland and provide their expertise in what is called the “Thousand Talents Plan.”  And the number 4180 is just as of 2014. The CCP has stopped releasing new information, and actually deleted the previous websites and information related to the  “Thousand Talents Plan” after it was identified as a program to recruit scientists and researchers who can steal intellectual property from the US and other countries. 

I also learned from the local Chinese community that many Chinese professors and researchers hold positions in both the US and China. They travel between the two countries frequently, receiving salaries from both sides, and taking research information and results, even patents they gather from the US to China, and get paid huge money for it.

Back in 2008, CCP  sent more than 12,000 red flags to Australia for the Chinese students in Australia to “turn Canberra into a sea of red flags”, and to “drown out” Tibetan demonstrators and pro-democracy protesters, when the Beijing Olympic Torch arrived in Australia’s capital city Canberra. The Chinese consulates in major Australian cities also organized big buses to transport the students from Syndey, Melbourne, and other cities to Canberra and offered them free meals. 

I was at the scene that day. It was quite astonishing to see how those 10 thousand hot-headed Chinese students who thought they were defending their dear motherland turned violent, and even beat up those who disagreed with them. 

The point here is, if the CCP could do this to Australia in 2008, one should not be surprised if they do something similar here in the US, such as offering some financial and logistical support to fuel the riots inside the US.

“Manifesto for the Elimination of the CCP”

Right after the closure order for CCP’s consulate in Houston was issued, U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo delivered a powerful and historical speech on China. Many Chinese people have been comparing it to Reagan’s “Evil Empire” speech, as well as Churchill’s “Iron Curtain” speech. Some call it ““Manifesto for the Elimination of the CCP”; Some say that Secretary Pompeo has raised the rallying cry for the extermination of the CCP.

I also think this speech is a very important turning point. It feels like that the gloves have finally come off, and the US has finally made up its mind regarding what the CCP really is, and how to deal with it.

For me, there are many important indications in Secretary Pompeo’s speech. 

First of all, and the most important one, is that America has finally woken up from its long illusions about the CCP, and is seeing the CCP for what it is, and speaking out loudly about it. 

I said in my previous program about the  possible U.S. travel ban on CCP members, that “treating the CCP like a normal political party is the biggest mistake the West made in the past 40 plus years when dealing with China.”

I was glad to hear Secretary Pompeo say the same thing about CCP’s trading practice, companies, students, employees, and the People’s Liberation Army. He recognized that all these are not normal practices, organizations, or personnel.

Time for a Regime Change?

The second indication of Secretary Pempeo’s speech is that the US is now ready to call for a regime change. 

About one year ago, I was still in Washington DC. I covered a lot of events on US-China relations as a journalist at the US Congress, research institutes, and think tanks. At that time, I could feel that although some politicians were very sharp when criticizing the CCP, none were ready to talk about regime change. They carefully avoided touching this sensitive issue. They were just not ready yet, or the idea was too much.

However, this time it was different. Although Secretary Pompeo didn’t utter the word “regime change”, he has called for the Chinese people to “change the CCP’s behavior”, and hinted that “free nations” should work together with Chinese people to “defend freedom”. He also mentioned that “We must also engage and empower the Chinese people.” 

So, we should not be too surprised if one day there appear in China some other political parties or forces that openly declare that they don’t recognize the CCP’s legitimacy, and call for an election, the US may choose to support such a move.

A Choice Between Freedom and Tyranny

The third important aspect of Secretary Pompeo’s speech is the declaration that  “The free world must triumph over this new tyranny.” By saying this, Secretary Pompeo was asking nations and the public to make a choice between freedom and tyranny. The battle is indeed not a battle between two superpowers, or big countries, for their own interests. It is a battle between freedom and tyranny, justice and evil, humanity, and the devil.  And every single human being needs to make a choice.

What Next?

So what next after the gloves are off? These are several possibilities:

1. Closing more consulates. 

Both President Trump and US Senator Ted Cruz have said that it is possible to close more CCP’s consulates in the US. 

2. Military confrontations in the South China Sea area.  Territorial disputes in the South China Sea is a long-existing problem. But until very recently, the international world showed little willingness to push back against the CCP’s aggressive expansion in this area.

On July 13, Secretary Pompeo announced an important shift in U.S. declaratory policy on the South China Sea, which says “Beijing’s claims to offshore resources across most of the South China Sea are completely unlawful, as is its campaign of bullying to control them.” 

Australia followed the suit on July 23,  and formally rejected CCP’s territorial and maritime claims in the South China Sea.

Since then the US, Australia, and Japan have conducted trilateral military exercises on the doorstep of the disputed South China Sea. US spy planes have edged “dangerously” close to CCP’s ‘maritime empire’.

Will all these moves create military conflicts in this area? Perhaps we can say anything is possible at such a time. 

3. More Sanctions 

The US could also impose more sanctions on the CCP. A Chinese scholar even predicted that Trump could extend the sanction to his old “friend” Xi Jinping. As Trump already signed the Hong Kong sanctions bill, it is inevitable that more CCP leaders who were involved in the crackdown on Hong Kong’s freedom will be sanctioned. Will Xi Jinping be also on the list? We will have to wait and see. 

4. Closer Ties with Taiwan

After the closure of CCP’s consulate in Houston, US Senator Ted Cruz tweeted: “With the State Department’s decision to close the Chinese consulate in Houston because it engaged in espionage and IP theft, the city now has a consulate for the free Republic of China (Taiwan) and no consulate for the tyrannical People’s Republic of China…as it should be.”

While the US is close to having an all-out confrontation with the CCP,  we can surely expect that it will enhance and strengthen its relationship with Taiwan. Some Chinese netizens are saying that Taiwan, or the Republic of China, should take back China from the CCP.  

CCP Preparing for War?

In the past few decades, whenever somebody did something that the CCP didn’t like, you could surely expect new titles such as “this would anger China”, or “China threatens retaliation”, etc, as if we should really be very fearful because “this would anger China”, or “China will retaliate.”

However, this time, when the US is close to calling the CCP an illegal government, what has the CCP done? Very little, or virtually nothing. 

Sure enough, they have chopped the name of Secretary Pompeo’s China policy adviser Miles Yu’s name from the “Hall of Fame” of Yongchuan Middle School in Chongqing, China, as the top student of that year; they have put up posters in Beijing to teach people how to get into the underground air defense facilities after alarms go off; they have also put up a “Pre-combat Evacuation Drill” in Shanghai on July 27, etc, but the CCP was quick to say that the drill in Shanghai was just a routine drill that happens every year and that it had nothing to do with preparing for war.

So far, apart from some verbal threats, and a “reciprocal” move of closing the US’ consulate in Chengdu, it seems the most substantial retaliation of the CCP so far was to remove the name of Secretary Pompeo’s China policy adviser from the “honorable list” of a middle school in China. 

The latest action of the CCP is its foreign Minister Wang Yi’s call for “rational dialogue”, peace & cooperation. Obviously, the CCP is not ready for war. And they are just creating some kind of “atmosphere” of war inside China to terrify the public, to incite anti-American sentiment, and to divert public attention from the real problems. 

Obstacles the US Has to Overcome

However, to really achieve the goal that “The free world must triumph over this new tyranny”, there are some serious obstacles or challenges for the US to overcome.

First of all, as Secretary Pompeo has put it, “Unlike the Soviet Union, China is deeply integrated into the global economy”, “The USSR was closed off from the free world. Communist China is already within our borders.” 

I said something similar two years ago in my article “What Kind of Media Do We Need to Battle a Modern Day Trojan War?” I said, “Although the U. S. might not have a strategy about how to deal with the post-Cold War China, the CCP did have a strategy as to how to launch a modern-day Trojan War to ‘silently invade’ the world.” 

How deeply has the CCP, as well as Communist ideology, infiltrated our society? One can hardly tell.

But just look at those politicians, scholars, China experts, lobbyists for Wall Street, for big companies, who always defend the CCP so eagerly when someone tries to criticize it, we should know that to cleanse the CCP elements from inside our societies is a very challenging task.

Another challenge is, as many young people in the West know very little of the CCP’s evil nature and its history of killing, they feel attracted by Socialist ideology without knowing that according to what the CCP has always been saying, that Socialism is the primary stage of Communism, and will inevitably lead to Communism. 

So, for the free world to win this battle, it is very important to educate and inform our young generations. I highly recommend two books and my own memoir, which are all about exposing the evil nature and killing history of CCP, as well as worldwide Communist movements.

The two books are, “Nine Commentaries on the Communist Party”, “How the  Specter of Communism Is Ruling Our World”.

The title of my memoir is “Witnessing History: One Woman’s Fight for Freedom and Falun Gong”. When it was published in 2005, a Sydney Morning Herald book review said this book should be “compulsory reading” for “politicians and journalists”. Later the president of “the Society of Women Writers NSW” in Australia said that “I challenge you all to read this book. It should be compulsory reading for the younger generation.”

I am not here saying how wonderful my book is. I mention this because the authors of the book reviews must have also realized how important it was for  politicians, journalists, and the younger generation to learn the truth, the ugly reality of living in a Communist country. 

Unless enough people have been awakened from illusions about the CCP and socialism, it will be very difficult to win this battle, and the CCP could turn around and come back with some new tricks. Therefore, we must continue with our fight until we win.

That’s all for today. Truth can indeed save lives no matter how inconvenient it is. Please subscribe to my channel if you haven’t.

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7/29/2020

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